When tying these patterns is the body the only color to worry about when matching the natural? In other words, a tan body for a tan caddis, an olive body for an olive caddis, etc.? Should the bubble sheath color be a white or cream, and the head any dark color? I haven’t tied these patterns in years.
Do you have success using a black bead for the deep emerger or is it better to wind wire lead to the hook shank?
Thanks,
Bruce
This should provide the answers and it’s based on GLF’s original design with the materials that are currently avaiable:
http://www.thebookmailer.com/Flies/Emergers/deepsparklepupa.html
I usually use a bead on the deep version…and do them a bit differently…works for me…
https://planettrout.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/the-sparkle-pupa-a-contemporary-revision-completed/
PT/TB
Hi Planettrout
Are yours different in that you mix the veil colors?
When I watched Gary tie one in person, the body was sort of a neon green, and the veil was sort of a golden color. The body he did through a touch dubbing technique on a waxed thread. It was quite sparse.
Hey Byron. Every time I read Kapaa, Hawaii, I dream. My sister is going with a group to visit Hawaii early next year.
Yes…the mixing of the veil colors is something GLF did not incorporate into the original pattern and he used a different type of yarn which, as I understand, is no longer available…Byron is correct about a skinny body however, I have caught a lot of Trout with these guys and a “not so skinny” abdomen…
PT/TB
Hi
The only thing I believe that is very wrong when I see this fly is a thick veil. Many commercial tiers make that mistake.
So you’re saying you don’t think a thick or thin body matters much? I’ve wondered about that myself.
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Y](http://s305.photobucket.com/user/planettrout/media/MOO EWR BROWN SP_zps0r4xvf6g.jpg.html)es indeed…
PT/TB
In “Caddisflies” he talked about a chunky shaggy body. I think that he later felt that the touch dubbed body gave a better impression of a living thing inside the antron sheath.
PT, really like the CDC-bodied variation. I’ve got a lot of lower quality feathers that would work great in a split-thread application (it does a decent job on CDC & Elk when I run short of the good stuff). Thanks for the link.
Regards,
Scott
Scott,
The CDC barbules also trap air bubbles inside the veil which adds to the sparkle of the pattern and it’s attractiveness to the Trout… They just take a bit longer to tie 
PT/TB
[QUOTE=planettrout;515653]Yes…the mixing of the veil colors is something GLF did not incorporate into the original pattern and he used a different type of yarn which, as I understand, is no longer available…Byron is correct about a skinny body however, I have caught a lot of Trout with these guys and a “not so skinny” abdomen…
The yarns can still be found on ebay, look for Dazzle-Aire or Ultra-Aire. I also have a large amount of yarn that GLF had made up by DuPont back in the late ninties and if this would be of interest to anyone I would be glad to share with anyone that wants some. Leave me a message and I will get back to you.
I still have alot of the type of antron yarn that Gary used for this fly and have decided to pass some along to others who might be interested. I’ve posted it in Things for sale section.